Because reality is beautiful.

Tru dat

As my young warrior princess says: “Weeeel1” for you crazy non Pinyin readers the 1 on the end indicates first tone, a ringing harmonic holding tone used in Chinese. Well, indeed. I got my newest asignment today. Sounds vaugely interesting. I go in to tell the Air Force where I would like to be when I do the thing that they want me to do. Its a little tradition in the Armed Services. You give them a list of bases that you would really like to go to. The problem, of course, is that if YOU wish to go there so do a vast many other people. So you go to Guam instead. With a mop. A mop the whole island. Twice. But you’ve got to go down a’ swinging, so I will go fill out the list.
(When the official DOD name of a document is “The Dream Sheet” its best not to get to hopeful.)
Work continues on my engine with no moving parts, the E-Jet. I’ve been reading all the papers that are publically available on Google on previous engines and have had all of my basic concepts vindicated. I still need to build some models.
I am also writting story about my own Utopia. Its about a society that uses laws to channel the free market in such a way that market forces themselves ARE social engineering programs rather than TAXES ON the markey creating the funding for social engineering.
And I watched the Truman show again. Man that is a incredible movie.